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<blockquote data-quote="dcow" data-source="post: 1000577" data-attributes="member: 139944">Yes, DiskUtility can do all this.&nbsp; All you need to do is select your OS partition&nbsp; in DiskUtility and select new image at the top.&nbsp; Then save it to the data partition.&nbsp; Anytime you want to restore, just boot up with your grey disc, go into DiskUtility and select the partition you want to restore then go to the restore tab, locate the image on your data partition and you're good to go.&nbsp; The more I think about it the more I think you'll want to use a hardlink in your case.&nbsp; I think it will be cleaner and since you're not dealing with multiple pointers to your data partition for your home directory you shouldn't run into any of the common issues with using hardlinks (like infinite loops or anything).&nbsp; Yeah use a hardlink.&nbsp; It will be more 'proper' this way and some of the UNIX programs are programed not to follow symlinks when removing files and such which you don't want to happen, if you want your home directory to function EXACTLY as if it was your home folder, just on a different partition, then use a hardlink (=To create a hardlink use the command:ln [source] [target]so you'll want it to look something like this:ln /Users/your_user_name /Volumes/DATA/if you don't delete your home folder you can use this command to force ln to override your homefolder:ln -Fi /Users/your_user_name /Volumes/DATA/(note F needs to be capital, the i flag is a prompt so you'll just have to type y to confirm that you want to override)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcow, post: 1000577, member: 139944"] Yes, DiskUtility can do all this. All you need to do is select your OS partition in DiskUtility and select new image at the top. Then save it to the data partition. Anytime you want to restore, just boot up with your grey disc, go into DiskUtility and select the partition you want to restore then go to the restore tab, locate the image on your data partition and you're good to go. The more I think about it the more I think you'll want to use a hardlink in your case. I think it will be cleaner and since you're not dealing with multiple pointers to your data partition for your home directory you shouldn't run into any of the common issues with using hardlinks (like infinite loops or anything). Yeah use a hardlink. It will be more 'proper' this way and some of the UNIX programs are programed not to follow symlinks when removing files and such which you don't want to happen, if you want your home directory to function EXACTLY as if it was your home folder, just on a different partition, then use a hardlink (= To create a hardlink use the command: ln [source] [target] so you'll want it to look something like this: ln /Users/your_user_name /Volumes/DATA/ if you don't delete your home folder you can use this command to force ln to override your homefolder: ln -Fi /Users/your_user_name /Volumes/DATA/ (note F needs to be capital, the i flag is a prompt so you'll just have to type y to confirm that you want to override) [/QUOTE]

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